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King, Lovecraft, Koontz, Poe, Barker & others telling stories round the campfire. Header by David Mumford. Three (3) x Hugo Nominee. Posts by Bitter Karella. www.midnightpals.com

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · Mar 9

Our own Bitter Karella has a deranged splatterpunk horror book MOONFLOW (about a trans shroom dealer lost in a haunted forest & running afoul of evil lesbian hippies and their bound fungus god) available for preorder!! Buy it today or look really uncool! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bitte...

Moonflow

Annihilation meets Manhunt in three-time Hugo Award nominee Bitter Karella’s debut horror novel—a gloriously queer and irreverent psychedelic trip int...

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 7h

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lanna "elizabeth hauntgomery" banana @lanna.bsky.social · 7h

"What if we had a ____ book club" is something I say once a year. Still think a @bitterkarella.bsky.social/ @midnightpals.bsky.social references book club is the best idea I ever had.

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 10h

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 12h

they should have ordered more!

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 13h

This is fair :)

The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 14h

at this point, if you haven't read Moonflow, we have to ask... what's wrong with you? Do you just not like quality entertainment? 🤔🤔🤔

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 14h

Moonflow gets the Charlie Jane Anders WaPo mention!! 😭🙏🥳🤯😏🚨🎉 Hot people everywhere rejoice! There will be dancing in the streets!

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 15h

It's spooky season! So I reviewed four great recent scary books:

Fiend by @almakatsu.bsky.social
Moonflow by @bitterkarella.bsky.social
Slashed Beauties by A Rushby
You Weren't Meant to be Human by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

4 terrifying new novels to get you through the scariest season

With an emphasis on body horror, these books by Alma Katsu, Bitter Karella, Andrew Joseph White and A. Rushby will leave you with a lingering sense of dread.

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 15h

Doyle: people, people, please!
Doyle: this whole hedgehog thing has caused you to lose sight of the important thing
Doyle: which is that we may finally be on the verge of proving the existance of
Doyle: [flailing wildly] FAIRY! GOD! PARENTS!

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 15h

McMahon: actually, she has a hedgehog
Poe:
Koontz:
King:
Lovecraft:
Barker:
King: well now that's just adorable
Koontz: i want a hedgehog too!
Poe: they are very cute
McMahon: you know, you can call them "hedgies"
King: oh that's just TOO adorable
Koontz: I WANT A HEDGIE TOO :(

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 15h

McMahon: well she doesn't have a dog but
HP Lovecraft: cat
McMahon: no but
Poppy Z Brite: ferret
Brite: it's a ferret right?
McMahon: close but
Brite: LEGALIZE THEM
Brite: DO IT FOR THE LITTLE GUY

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 15h

McMahon: but 15 years later, that logical brother is all grown up and he's dating this other girl
McMahon: and this other girl, she's a little messed up, bad childhood and all, but she loves animals
McMahon: in fact she has a
Koontz: DOG
Koontz: SHE HAS A DOG
Koontz: please say it's a dog!

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 15h

McMahon: this girl is obsessed with finding fairies, to the chagrin of her very logical brother
McMahon: he's all "well by my calculations, fairies don't exist"
McMahon: and also her cousin, who carries around a big hunting knife
Mary Shelley: hey this cousin sounds cool!
Shelley: real relatable

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 15h

Doyle: after extensive interviews with people who've encountered fairies, i can confidently say i know p much everything about how they work
Doyle: for example, they kidnap kids
McMahon: true
Doyle: they live underground and change shape
AM Shine: that's correct
Doyle: and they're queer
Machen: yes

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 15h

Doyle: tell me every detail of this fairy encounter
Doyle: leave nothing out
Doyle: [speaking into tape recorder] interview #5357, 10/14/25, subject J. McMahon, session 1, take 1
McMahon: uhhhhhh
McMahon: is he always doing this
Arthur Machen: yeah he does this to me every week

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 15h

McMahon: actually, see, the interesting part of this story is
McMahon: did this girl ACTUALLY get abducted by fairies?
McMahon: or is there a more mundane but no less sinister explanation for her disapp-
Doyle: it was definitely fairies
Doyle: there is no other logical explanation

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 15h

McMahon: but then, after 15 years, this girl comes back
Doyle: oh my god an actual witness returning from fairyland?!
Doyle: this is huge!!
Doyle: finally we'll have the evidence to prove the existence of fairies!
Doyle: when can i interview this girl
McMahon:

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 15h

Jennifer McMahon: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the girl who gets kidnapped by fairies
Arthur Conan Doyle: ah yes yes yes
Doyle: as the resident expert on fairies and fairy behavior
Doyle: i can say that's pretty standard fairy behavior

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 1d

If you need some excitement from a different dimension (instead of ours), check out these new titles we received in the mail! #TheSovereign #Apprehension #RedStarHustle #Moonflow

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@clclark
@sentencebender
#MaryRobinetteKowal
@bitterkarella
@hachettelibrary

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 1d

Koontz: wow, franz!
Koontz: you sure know a lot about her!
Kafka: yeah well i just think she's interesting

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 1d

Koontz: who's Christine jorgensen?
Franz Kafka: she was the first trans woman to be widely publicly known in the US for undergoing a sex change operation
Kafka: she went on to be a famous actress, singer and trans activist

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 1d

Koontz: what's autogynephilia?
Murphy: it's like being trans except evil
Murphy: it's a very scientifically sound and not at all debunked theory
Koontz: wow, i'm learning so much!
Barker: actually dean you're not
Barker: you're actually dumber now for hearing this

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 1d

Murphy: like, we need to keep transition behind a metaphorical gate
Murphy: and psychiatrists could, like, keep that gate
Murphy: almost like gatekeepers
Murphy: medical gatekeepers
Murphy: this is gonna go over real well

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 1d

Murphy: now i may not have object permanence or the ability to retain memories in any shape or form
Murphy: but one thing i know is that the only way to stop the autogynephiles
Murphy: is to require prolonged psychological assessment to determine whether someone is pretty enough to transition

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 1d

Murphy: what if we had Christine Jorgensen tell ed gein he has autogynephilia?
Thomas Harris: ho ho ho ryan my boy you've done it again!
Murphy: actually i'm ian brennan
Murphy: no wait
Murphy:
Murphy: yeah actually that's right I'm ian brennan
Murphy:
Murphy: ...or am I???

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 1d

Murphy: so anyway we invented a made-up trans backstory for ed gein
Murphy: but we were real careful not to make it transphobic
Murphy: you can definitely trust me, the creator of nip/tuck, to handle this topic sensitively
Murphy: or my name isn't ian brennan!
Murphy: no wait i mean ryan murphy

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 1d

Murphy: this time i'm tackling the ed gein story
Murphy: so i'm real excited for some perfectly coifed 1950s ladies with fire engine red lipstick

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